Top 1200 Moral Lessons Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

The insistence on truthfulness does not disturb the freedom of the individual. The social obligation implied in Satyagraha turns the freedom of the individual into moral freedom. An atheist is free to say or to do what he likes, provided he does what he says and says what he does. So, in the context of social relations, the freedom of the individual is moral freedom.

We have not learned the lessons of 9/11. This wrongful suspicion, racial hatred, and profiling is what I keep seeing.

When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.

I've actually tried to give Brett Ratner dance lessons, but he thinks he already knows how to.

Maybe the growth of "God" signifies the existence of God. That is: if history naturally pushes people toward moral improvement, toward moral growth, and their God, as they conceive their God, grows accordingly, becoming morally richer, then maybe this growth is evidence of some higher purpose, and maybe - conceivably - the source of that purpose is worthy of the name divinity.

Everything does not happen according to a plan, and you learn your lessons the hard way.

We need to take lessons learned from fighting terrorism and apply them to cyber crime.

I've no real musical training, although I took some piano lessons a while ago.

For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim to being the only universal framework for moral wisdom. As a result, the most powerful societies on early spend their time debating issues like gay marriage when they should be focused on problems like nuclear proliferation, genocide, energy security, climate change, poverty, and failing schools.

Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greatest gems of light.

Those lessons that I got along the way are the ones that have shaped my life for the last 20 years.

Take and chance and don't ever look back. Never have regrets, just lessons learned.

It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their indepdence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery...and the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and the sympathy of nations would begin to run for the North, not for the South.

If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.

So many of our lessons are learned, it would seem, too late to use on Earth.

One of the early lessons that I learned in leadership is that it's the leader's job to always go against the flow.

Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care for the sick, protect the defenseless, assist the weak, and enlighten the ignorant. But these are simply moral duties, of which each man must be his own judge, in each particular case, as to whether, and how, and how far, he can, or will perform them.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

I think I've certainly learned a lot of lessons in humility and continue to work on that part of myself.

... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a deep-seated yearning for stable values... When conservative Christian groups talk of failures in our educational system, the erosion of our moral standards, and the waste of young lives, they are addressing real and legitimate concerns... Among secularists, the aversion toward discussion of moral values, let alone religion, can reach absurd extremes.

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance

Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact.

I feel like we're between two great possibilities: we're either going to turn things around, and in this generation see the rising sun of a new moral dedication in America, or we're going to lose the struggle for that moral renewal, throw away the basic principles on which our life and civilization is based, and head toward a new century that will make the 20th century look like a dress rehearsal for evil.

I learnt my lessons very early on that it's probably a good thing to be humble in victory as well as defeat.

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

At the age of five she has already come to terms with one of the life's harshest lessons: that the world isn't fair.

One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'

English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.

Don't give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don't know that when you're young.

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.

Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.

Gymnastics has taught me so many lessons, and I couldn't be more grateful for everything that I've gone through.

My mum took me to swimming lessons when I was very young, four years old.

Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.

One of the lessons learned in the Middle East is to never try to anticipate the other side's moves.

Someone suggested elocution lessons but there is no way I am changing my accent, I'm proud of my roots.

I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.

I was home educated but would skip my lessons to go hang out at school.

The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

I was taking singing lessons, and they'd say, 'Your voice is too hoarse. You have to do more exercises.'

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.

You always have to finish what you start and I learned that some of life's greatest lessons come with disappointment.

Fathers teach their best lessons to their children by the way they handle life when confronted with adversities.

Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.

Evaluate every performance on: stage presence, concentration, delivery, material and lessons learned.

Even bad results teach you something, and you can learn your lessons and get better.

Freedom rests on finding the meaning and lessons even in our greatest pain.

Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of the facts, is to me perverse, alien, dangerous. How shall I account for him? The opponent has always to be explained, and the last explanation that we ever look for is that he sees a different set of facts. Such an explanation we avoid, because it saps the very foundation of our own assurance that we have seen life steadily and seen it whole.

Boston's future depends on taking the lessons from the coronavirus pandemic to tackle big challenges.

Sometimes your higher self will guide you to make mistakes so you can learn lessons.

Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!